[jrh]

Thanks for all the good thoughts everybody.

Here's how I handled the situation when it happened to me today:

I called the FSDO to get a special ferry permit. The FAA guy wasn't at all happy with the idea of a special ferry permit and acted surprised that I would even consider such a thing for an inop brake.

I then called the mechanic to see if he could come out and work on it on-site. He told me I had screwed up by even talking to the FAA and I should just fly it over to him anyway. Ok...sure...not with *my* certificates on the line I won't.

So I called the operator of this aircraft and told him what was happening. He told me I'd made a good choice, he didn't want the plane flying either, and he'd get a mechanic out to me one way or another.

Oh, and to clarify the situation, it's a C-150, and I would've been taking it in to a 2200' grass runway at the airport where the mechanic is, had I decided to fly it. The other option would have been a 2400' paved runway at the same airport, but I think grass is worth 200 feet of braking.

So, whatever people think of it, that's what I did. It's one of those things where I think I probably could have made it in fine, but if something had happened...I don't want to be explaining myself to an investigator. Gambling a big chunk of my career on an old C-150? I don't think so.